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Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs by Ambrose Bierce; S. T. Joshi (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldi ...Show more
Carson Mccullers: Complete Novels (LOA #128) - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / the Ballad of the Sad Café / the Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America Carson Mccullers Edition Ser.
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. This Library of America volume collects McCullers's complete novels for the ...Show more
Edith Wharton - Four Novels of the 1920s - The Glimpses of the Moon; a Son at the Front; Twilight Sleep; the Children by Edith Wharton; Hermione Lee (Editor)
Category: Accessories | Series: Library of America Edith Wharton Edition Ser.
Acclaimed biographer Hermione Lee presents four "remarkable and surprising" books that collectively capture World War I and the Jazz Age through the eyes of one of our greatest novelists. Edith Wharton achieved the height of her critical and popular success in the 1920s, following The Age of Innocence, ...Show more
Jack Kerouac by Marilene (EDT) Jack; Phipps-kettlewell Kerouac
Category: Gift | Series: Library of America
Kurt Vonnegut : The Complete Novel Set by Sidney (EDT) Kurt; Offit Vonnegut
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America
Laura Ingalls Wilder : The Little House Books by Caroline (EDT) Laura Ingalls; Fraser Wilder
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volume One: Little House in the Big Woods/Farmer Boy/Little House on the Prairie/On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. But readers who last enjoyed them as children may be astonished at the quiet poetry of Wilder's prose and the force and poignancy of her portrait of the lives o ...Show more
Novels and Stories 1932-1937 - The Pastures of Heaven / to a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / in Dubious Battle / of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. ...Show more
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment by Rachel Carson; Sandra Steingraber (Editor)
Category: Nature | Series: The\Library of America Ser.
The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the extraordinary courage and vision of its author Library of America launches its Rachel Carson edition with this deluxe illustrated volume presenting one of th ...Show more
Selected Speeches and Writings by Abraham Lincoln
Category: History | Series: Library of America Paperback Classics
?Alone among American Presidents, it is possible to imagine Lincoln, grown up in a different milieu, becoming a distinguished writer of a not merely political kind.?--Edmund Wilson Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and some sometimes savage humor to private correspondence and political rhe ...Show more
The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Stephen Sears
Category: History | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published pieces, here are ...Show more